Hi, > [...] and when i brought up my IE 6 i had lost all my history and popups > came in faster > than i could close them. Its a nightmare i have never had to go through > before on this > computer. > I checked and my conection is armed for MS firewall,but still getting through.
Make sure you have the messenger service turned off. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx SP2 will do this for you when you install it, but if you haven't already switched it off, do it now. Have a look at the other services you have running (use Task Manager - Ctrl+Alt+Del then select the Processes tab) and make sure you know why each of them is there. There are websites around which will tell you what they are, e.g. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm Trojans often run as services. Anti-virus software often can't get rid of them because they're running - the OS won't delete them while they're in use. Because they load at startup they are always in use. You have to prevent them from loading at startup, which can mean hacking around in the registry, and can be a bit of a pain. When you're confident that you've found something and can delete it, look again. They sometimes set themselves up to load from more than one place, so you think you've got rid of something, but it immediately reinstalls itself. -- Cheers, Bob
